I finally unlocked the rest of the cities in Rock Band 2 after getting a worldwide promoter after one set, revealing not just one but eight more cities to go. At least I got an achievement for unlocking them all… Some of them are definitely tougher, and some even have songs that are only playable at Hard or higher, so I guess I’m going to have to make the leap at some point.

I’ve also seen a few new types of events, like gold record sets (not sure what the reward really is yet), and Battles of the Bands. The battles are short-term events that will be added and removed at regular intervals, and have varying conditions on what songs to play, who has to be in the band, what difficulty to play at, and how they’re ranked. You go head-to-head with someone else’s ranking, which is displayed as you’re playing even though you’re not actually playing against them simultaneously.

And I finally got screwed by a GB chord for the first time, in The Trees. Damn you, Rush! I really need to start adapting back to using all four fingers…